'bug' or not? [b87]

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'bug' or not? [b87]

Post by wolph42 »

I was working on my back of tricks and decided to remove the
[h:''] from the [h:'<!-- bla -->'], so you're left with <!-- bla -->, however it turns out that this ports a blank line to the chat. E.g. run this macro

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<!-- Test -->
and you'll notice that a blank line is shown in the chat.

I've been using the [h:] for so long that I don't even know if this is supposed to happen, but obviously this is 'unwanted' behaviour. E.g. in ontokenmove now every time you move a token a blank line is added to the chat...

The main reason to remove the [h:''] is because its significantly faster.

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Re: 'bug' or not? [b87]

Post by aliasmask »

Yeah, html comments are still sent to output, but you just don't see them. So, if the comment is in onTokenMove, then you should use the [H: ], but if not and it's a called UDF then you should set it to ignore output. I try to keep the onTokenMove hook as small as possible. By default, all my UDFs have ignore output set.

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@@ @onMultipleTokensMove
[H: ids = macro.args]
[H, if(am.play.doVBLMove(ids)), code: {
   [H: tokens.denyMove = 1]
   [H: am.play.VBLMove(ids)]
};{}]

!!
@@ @onTokenMove
[H: id = currentToken()]
[H, if(tokens.moveCount <= 1 && am.play.doVBLMove(id)), code: {
   [H: tokens.denyMove = 1]
   [H: am.play.VBLMove(id)]
};{}]

!!
@@ @doVBLMove
[H: ids = arg(0)]
[H: doVBLMove = 0]
[H: counter = 0]
<!-- ignore if vision is off for map -->
[H: mapVisionOn =  if(json.get(getInfo("map"),"vision type") != "off",1,0)]
[H, if(json.type(ids) == "ARRAY"): ids = json.toList(ids)]
[H: numIds = listCount(ids)]
[H, while(! doVBLMove && counter < numIds && mapVisionOn), code: {
   [H: id = listGet(ids,counter)]
   [H: switchToken(id)]
   [H: name = lower(getName())]
   <!-- only need one valid token to use VBLMove macro -->
   [H, if(! startsWith(name,"lib:") && ! startsWith(name,"image:")): doVBLMove = 1]
   [H: counter = counter + 1]
}]
[H: macro.return = doVBLMove]

!!
 


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Re: 'bug' or not? [b87]

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Yeah, this is expected behaviour. Days ago any macro would cause an output line to appear. Then one lone but knowadays forgotten hero appeared and he mangled some code so that macro creating no output were from now on hindered to cause that line. The hero was wise and great but he couldnt see the difference between output and comments as before the html parser all was one.

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Re: 'bug' or not? [b87]

Post by Winter »

Thanks much for the information about the blank output line and the caution about the size of onTokenMove calls. It'll help keep my framework clean and responsive.

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Re: 'bug' or not? [b87]

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CoveredInFish wrote:Then one lone but knowadays forgotten hero appeared [...]
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